Question: Some good news...... despite the new sanctions from our Canadian politicians, we finally got our Visa's for Iran.
We got a big no, don't even bother, last time we applied during the election, so for us this is great news, we finally get to visit Persia.
We used this agency and they were great. Good communication. Took around 2 weeks to get the MFA number and then it was plain sailing. One week turnaround for the visa from Ottawa.
I can highly recommend Pars agency.
We have a one month trip planned for October travellng independantly. Will give you some updates when we get back.
Keep travelling,
Oldbackpack
Answer: Iran tourist visa issuance is easily done in the below three ways:
1. Fly to Iran and at the airport get a 14 days on arrival visa. The visa on arrival is for 98 nationalities excluding USA, England, Canada, Colombia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Somalia. If your nationality is among the countries authorized to get a 14-day on arrival visa, you can easily collect you visa against offering your passport, a passport-size photo and about $50 to the staff at the airport. There is no need to fill in the form on the evisa website because usually this website doesn’t answer the requests.
2. Refer to the Iranian embassy in your country and ask for a visa to be issued for you. Usually this way takes longer time about 30 days.
3. Contact an Iran based agency to apply for your visa, it takes about 10 working days to get your reference number from the MFA and two working days to collect your visa at the embassy by direct referral or one working week by posting the docs to the embassy. The agencies rate for applying visa is $ 30-50 which you will be asked to pay to pay to the accounts outside Iran or pay in cash in Iran.
After being stamped in your passport, this visa is valid for 3 months to enter Iran. The exit may happen after this period. You can collect your visa in any of the Iranian embassies all over the world which should be specified while sending your request.
http://www.uppersia.com/Iran-travel-services/iran-visa.html
